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The goo-goos are nothing if not unrelenting, and they’ve adopted a bit of stagecraft to go with their push for government reform.

With the Senate coming back this afternoon, and the June 8 coup apparently reversed, government reform groups are continuing to urge Senators to adopt a slew of reforms such as campaign finance and ethics reforms as well as reversing the time-honored tactic of negotiating the state budget in secret.

Pictured here is the League of Women Voters’ Barb Bartoletti, Citizen Union’s DeNora Getachew, NYPIRG’s Bill Mahoney and Common Cause’s Susan Lerner. Pictured behind them is a stack of more than 1,000 glue sticks, which they will be delivering to Senators today telling them to “stick” to their promises of reform. Along with the glue, they’ll deliver hundreds of e-mails responses that the Common Cause folks got when they contacted members of their mailing list, seeking comments on what the Senate needs to do to right itself.

“They promised campaign finance reform. They promised ethics reform,” said Lerner, bemoaning how those concepts seem to have been lost in the chaos that ensued after June 8.

“The public has had an opportunity to look deep into this chamber and they didn’t like what they saw,” remarked Bartoletti.

Indeed, some of the comments, not all, suggest that a “throw the bums out” sentiment may indeed be brewing among the electorate and these reformers hope that will put enough of a scare into lawmakers to prod them into reforms.

Among the comments: “We should elect a whole new senate. No current member deserves to continue,” from a Niskayuna letter-writer; and “I would vote for firing everyone in the State Senate if I could,” from Schenectady.

“You would and should be fired from any other job! You should still be fired!” writes one respondent from Ellington. The goos goos will deliver the letters, with names, to their respective senators.

But there were also some remarks that suggested people will simply vote party lines or re-elect incumbents, such as the New York city writer who said “The Republicans created this by co-opting two democrats,” or the Albany writer who said “Senator NEIL (Breslin) …Thanks for standing in unity with Democrats.”

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